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But the love-breathing daughters of Castile reck little of rank and station; and
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 Various
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SIR A. Jack, Jack! what think you of blooming, love-breathing seventeen?
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But the mighty stem had grown richer through the beautiful bloom of her love-breathing life.
The Bride of Dreams Frederik van Eeden 1896
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From their nests in the airy, leaf-garlanded grottoes, which mother nature has prepared for them in the lofty oaks and ashes, the starlings send their deep, lively whistlings, their love-breathing trills.
Strife and Peace Fredrika Bremer 1833
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I who sought and had found joy in the love-breathing countenance of my father now when I dared fix on him a supplicating look it was ever answered by an angry frown.
Mathilda Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 1824
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Do they flow, like the dews of the love-breathing night,
The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes Thomas Moore 1815
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Jack! what think you of blooming, love-breathing seventeen?
The Rivals A Comedy Richard Brinsley Sheridan 1783
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But when he finally seems to get his way, and lubriciously describes the delights of Lydia Languish to his son - "Jack, Jack, what think you of blooming love-breathing seventeen?"
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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But when he finally seems to get his way, and lubriciously describes the delights of Lydia Languish to his son - "Jack, Jack, what think you of blooming love-breathing seventeen?"
Arts news, reviews and previews: culture, movies, music, theatre, books and TV 2010
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But when he finally seems to get his way, and lubriciously describes the delights of Lydia Languish to his son - "Jack, Jack, what think you of blooming love-breathing seventeen?"
Telegraph Arts 2010
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